The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

gotiating for the purchase of Wallop's Island,
ON the northeastern coast of Accomac county,
| virginia, where they propose to erect number
OF pleasure houses
FIELD HANDS in China are paid SIC per annum,
with food, straw shoes and free shaving. 1t
costs about 81 per year for clothes. A great
| deal of Chinese land is divided up into farms of
| one-sixth of an acre.
NASHVILLE business summary says building
in and around that city is very brisk. Plans and
| contracts for new buildings for next year are
plentiful News from surrounding towns within
thirty miles show that there is great industrial
| activity.
RECORDER McCoRD, of the Probate Court in
! Cincinnati, says that as rule women are less
selfish than men. He comes to this conclusion
after reading 100 old wills in which he found
many cases where the husband made provision
TO cut OF the widows supplies in case she re-
married; and in his whole experience he has
! read but one will of married woman wherein
| any such stipulation was made respecting her
| husband
JOHN L. MURRY, of Westport, Conn, now
veteran of 81 years, is a tailor, and remembers
well when he sat as journeymau at the same
| table with Andrew johnson, who, he says, was
| not good tailor, although he did become
President Of the United States. Mr.. hurry
| relates with appreciation his experience In that
| city in 1874. He drawn on jury, and lost
| so much time that he afterward Joined the
| volunteer Fire Department to escape jury duty.
| Soon afterward occurred the great Broad street
fire, at which he received injuries that laid him
| up Tor sixteen months.
| THE Buffalo Express says that this is the way
countryman explained to friend the use of the
new police patrol boxes of that city: You see,
| ne said, the people i'll town here want a po-
hceman sometimes, and, by gol! whenever they
did want one, or if there was fight goin' on
| anywhere, the policemen would all run away
| and hide cause they don't want to arrest any
| oody SO they put these little iron boxes on the
| corners and they put policeman in each one of
them so that he can't run away, and then the
| town folks all carry a key TO the boxes, and can
| go and find a policeman whenever they want
| one"
THERE was some interesting testimony about
partridges in Hartford, Conn. court the other
day when H. II. Hewitt was charged with sell
| ing partridges that had been SHARED. One of
| the exhibits was bird that had no signs of shot
| about it, but had mark about its neck Just such
| as a snare would make. One of the witnesses
| swore that cartridges died in queer way. He
was out the other day and fired at two BIRDS
| each of which brought in by his dog, but
| had no shot marks. The birds fell when he
| fired. Whether they were scared TO death he
| did not know. There was also testimony that
partridges were accustomed to dash themselves
against trees and break their necks or die of the
| conclusion: One gunner testified that when his
| dog brought in wounded bird. he (the gInner)
/ killed it by biting its neck This evidence was
| apparently intended to account for the ring
round the neck of the bird in court. The result
| OF the testimony was that Mr.. Hewitt was dis
charged, the State not being able to beat that
| sort of swearing.
| THEY conduct their religion on business princi-
pies in Chicago according to this story of par
son there: Il was in the Office of one of my
| Pensioners, said he. HE was a fair type of
| the Chicago Christian and l preached to him
| the subject of a revival. He ran over his calen-
dar with his pencil for several weeks ahead, and
| then answered that l couldn't count on him I'M
| til after Dec. l. He said he had to have his
| stove put up in about week Then he had to
| have new winter overcoat, and about the mid
| die of November he had to go to the opera He
| said all this in COOL busness-li1e way, and
| with no intention of being funny, for he has
| humor in him. thought it was time for me to
| appear in the role of missionary, and | said to
| him, But the Spirit says now L can't help
| it, he replied petulantly. The Spirit must I'M
| give me at least three days of grace don't
| think he meant any levity or play on the word;
but l confess that l was stumped."
EDWARD WIIMoT BLYDEN is perhaps the ablest
negro in the world. He can read the Koran in
Arabic, the Bible in Hebrew, Homer in Greek,
Virgil in Latin, Shakespeare in English, and
Dante in Italian. Though a native Of the island
| of st. Thomas, he was brought up in Monrovia,
| Liberia, and there, by his unusual literary
ability, he has attracted attention to himself as
| the champion of a negro civilization that shall
| be coterminous with the limits of the Dark Con-
| tinent. Blyden coptroverts the idea of Win
wood Read that the natives in Africa will dis
| appear before the whites, as the Indians did in
America. The climate will save them, and, in
| stead OF being destroyed by the Europeans,
/ they will be civilized by the efforts now being
made to open Africa to commerce and settle
ment. To Blyden the Anglo-Saxon is hard of
heart and strong of will, while the negro is the
| child of love and suffering. Blyden IS a COM
| plete Know Nothing and his cry is africa for
the Africans" He is likely to have few to op-
| pose him in this matter, for not even the chill
| Africans raised ho in
duced to remain there if they have the means
| to get away.
The death of the Jewish poet, Emma Lag
arus, takes from Hebrew and American liter
allure one who was not more devoted to
the interests of her race than she was COM
| petent to take a high rank among the female
| poets of the country. She has been cut off in
the middle of her career, with her best work
yet to be done but what she has already
| accomplished, both in prose and verse en-
titles her to high distinction The Jeaoish
| Messenger says of her: 1T is rarely that a
| writer combines such vigorous and masterful
prose with such glowing and exquisite verse.
| Her literary work was always clear-cut, and in
| her impetuous mood each stirring phrase seemed
| coined from her soul" She was as mode Sc as
| she was gifted, as enthusiastic for humanity as
| She was for her race, and Jews and Christians
| alike deeply and sincerely mourn her loss as
one who blended the best elements SO perfectIv
in her life that she delighted and spiritually up-
lifted all who knew her Her first volume was
puDlSneu III ubF lIIn year, anu ner TRANSACTIONS
and her original work were of very high order
1t would be well if her writings could be brought
together in a complete form. They are worthy
of such treatment.
THE first statue of the poet LongfeIlow will be
erected in his birthplace, Portland, Me- The
sculptor TO whom the commission was given by
a memorial association formed in Portland soon
after the poets death, was Mr. Franklin Sim
mons, a native of Maine, who unfortunately
for his art has elected to spend the greater part
of his professional life in Italy. The CLAW model
which has just been finished in Rome will he
| put in bronze within the next six months and
the statue will probably be unveiled in Portland
| in the late spring. An account of the statue in
very eulogstic vein, which recently appeared
in the Paris An'eTtcdn Register, contains the
following: The poet is represented in
sitting attitude, the right arm resting in
an easy position on the back of richly
carved and ornamented chair, while the
other is thrown carelessly forward on his lap,
and loosely holding a mass Of manuscript The |
ample folds Of the cloak falling from the shout
ders sweep around and cover the knees in n |
manner that is at once natural and graceful as |
an example Of artistic composition The space |
beneath the chair is broken by some straw vol |
u1nes that serve alike to fill a vacancy and to
form suggestive adjunct of minor nature |
The head, leonne almost in the flowing locks al
characteristic of the man, Is inclined slightly
forward in thoughtful way and is expressive |
OF modest and dlgnifed intellectually as its |
prevailing sentiment. The height of the figure
IL standing, would be 10 feet, and the pedestal |